That feeling did not go away until she began to write. Once upon a time, Sulari Gentill was a corporate lawyer serving as a director on public boards, with only a vague disquiet that there was something else she was meant to do. Thank you to Poisoned Pen Press for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review. Pick up a copy from your favourite retailer or from one of the following links. Overall, The Woman in the Library is a compelling, sly, creative tale by Gentill that, with its story within a story, is a clever, unique, addictive whodunit that certainly kept me guessing from start to finish. And the plot builds nicely to create just the right amount of tension and suspense as it unravels all the different personalities, questionable motivations, duplicitous actions, and relationships within it. The characters are multilayered, secretive, and consumed. The Woman in the Library is an intricate, twisty, complex thriller featuring Hannah, a successful writer who is writing her latest mystery about four strangers, Freddie, Cain, Whit, and Marigold, who accidentally meet one day as they all share a table in the Boston Public Library and after they hear a woman scream subsequently work together to not only identify who the slain woman was but who out of the four of them, as impossible as it may seem, actually murdered her. Each has his or her own reasons for being in the reading room that morning-it just happens that one is a murderer.Īward-winning author Sulari Gentill delivers a sharply thrilling read with THE WOMAN IN THE LIBRARY, an unexpectedly twisty literary adventure that examines the complicated nature of friendship and shows us that words can be the most treacherous weapons of all. While they wait for the all-clear, four strangers sitting at the same table, pass the time in conversation and friendships are struck.

Security guards take charge immediately, instructing everyone inside to stay put until the threat is identified and contained. The ornate reading room at the Boston Public Library is quiet, until the tranquility is shattered by a woman’s terrified scream. In every person’s story, there is something to hide…

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